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Yet despite all its success, Comedy Central announced last month that it would becanceling the series.
In the age of streaming and surprise pickups, no show is ever truly dead.
Thats not what Rasputin would have wanted).
Slip of the Tongue:I cant fucking die!
I got two fuckin dicks!
Waters:[That one], I believe, is the most bleeps the show has ever had.
I love that one too.
Jerry OConnell and Brendan Sexton III are so good in it.
Im surprised that Johnny Cool [didnt make it].
I love Johnny Cool.
But I respect your decision.
Closed and toesd indeed.
Slip of the Tongue:An integrated casino?
Ive never heard of such a thing because Im aracistfrom the time in which I live!
Waters:Ive been a fan of [Tompkins] fromMr.
Showand stand-up, and hes just a great storyteller.
And its great to see theMister Rogers Neighborhoodset so lovingly replicated, puppets and all.
Waters:Theres something so special about that.
Also, his dad hadnt been cast as Mister Rogers yet.
When he got cast, Colin told his dad, Well, I played him first.
Man, the re-creation of that set; the production design was unbelievable.
You gotta make it look as close as you’re able to.
The results are as funny as they are powerful.
Waters:Im almost offended its a little high!
But that one blows my mind just how long this country had been going without [disability rights].
The golden rule since day one was How do we best tell the story?
And we had to tell the story the way we did, with all disabled actors like Ali Stroker.
Waters:Jack Blacks performance him peeping out behind the curtains and running away with the art?
Man, thats great.
You likeMona Lisamore than Stetson Kennedy?
Slip of the Tongue:The best babysitter I ever had in my life was my dads turntable.
Method Man and OShea Jackson Jr. are so good.
And Miles Brown, hes not little anymore; that kids going to be the biggest star.
Slip of the Tongue:[Nichols] was like, Thats a lot on my shoulders.
Can you chill?, and hes like, No, Im Martin Luther King.
I have no chill.
Waters:Using Raven-Symone, and Jaleel White, too, theres so many different levels to that.
Slip of the Tongue:Fuck the Nazis, man.
Im 97.4 percent Ashkenazi.
Waters:[on casting Weird Al as a Nazi again] Blame me!
Youve gotta smile a little bit.
And [Rachel] did a wonderful job, especially with her dog licking herself.
But thats also Marias talent mixed with Jennies talent.
Whats that she says?
Im gonna cut yerfundin!
I cant do it.
Again, that story was one I didnt know about before.
Theres literally no otherDrunk Historylike it.
Waters:That was for the pilot, even though Boston aired fifth or sixth, I think.
The original idea was to do historical, local, and personal [stories].
And I just loved how they played off each other.
And [Ritter] just nonstop, 100 percent always delivers.
Slip of the Tongue:Were gonna take their fresh water.
Were gonna take theirelectrixity lemme say that right.
Waters:Thats one of my all-time favorites.
He was very sincere about it.
We did Nellie Bly twice, and that story, that book, is so powerful.
I just felt that story had an importance to it.
Plus we get a helpful lecture on the ratio of soybeans to horse dicks.
Slip of the Tongue:Were doing real work here, guys.
Carbons and hydrodrons, oxyjons and carbutrons.
Thats molecules for ya.
Waters:Nick Monsour is a great editor, and Im 99 percent sure he did that episode.
But it was the editors idea to put all the words there.
It was just so funny.
But the game of the show is that weve got to show whatever they say.
And Jordan Peele has the most subtle way of playing that.
Slip of the Tongue:[Kane] is such a wonderful fucking thing.
Aaaand he also did the voice in theTransformersmovie.
Waters:Thats the one that won us the Emmy for costumes.
We filmed the narration at the Biltmore with Berg, and the lights kept flickering.
I know how to play with my narrators and told him, I think Orsons here, man.
Then I was like,Oh shit, he might actually be there.
Its a greater tribute to Parton than she could ever ask for.
Slip of the Tongue:Jolene.
Nowthatis a fucking country-and-western song.
Waters:No human being with a heart doesnt like Dolly Parton.
He found that story instead, and we just decided to shoot him doing it.
Im so grateful for him for doing that.
Slip of the Tongue:[Talkingtoher dog] Hes like, Give me back my balls!
I took them away.
But I have a full vagina.
Waters:Whats that, like, she yells?
There are so many.
There are very few people that are more likable than Jenny Slate.
I should have rewatched them, but yeah: Jason and Justin Long together.
[The invention of] Coke is good, but you picked the right one.
The whole premise got changed, but thats a good one.
Jen Kirkman is the queen ofDrunk History, forever and always.
And Winona Ryder, oh my God.
And Michael Ceras dumb wig and his hair coming out.
I remember the first AD yelling, but we were like, No, c’mon its perfect.
(Uh, we dont like you.
You are poopy.)
Waters:Im surprised, man.
I like them all, but Claudette Colvin is one of my favorites.
But Little Rock is really great.
Slip of the Tongue:Theres no magical thing here dont do speed and fuck with explosives!
Waters:No one would tell that story better than Duncan.
I think he may have pitched a version of that and then we found this specific story.
[The sex scenes] were so much fun.
We had these broomsticks with wigs on.
Just a bunch of teenagers making a little short.
Shes truly a legend in the field.
Its a very friendly fucking-with-each-other relationship.
Crissle Wests fierce, impassioned yarn about the June 18 (or 28th … [Grey] put in a tape, and I just cried watching it; it was so good.
And Trace is in there too.
Ive got my civil rights!
That was the last shoot day of that season, and I remember every year feeling like Im done.
And then you do that story, and suddenly youre like, Theres more of these, right?
Waters:I think that your No.
4 would be other peoples No.
Haddish makes the most hilarious case for the value of that sensibility.
Shes having a blast, shouting and laughing as she tells the story as only she would tell it.
Slip of the Tongue:And Hitler killed himself … they say.
I think hes hanging out with Tupac.
Waters:One of the best narrators in the history of the show.
Michaela Watkins chewing a pencil in lust!
Joe Lo Truglio waiting for Lyric to come up with the right milk analogy!
Bennie Arthur in a shark outfit!
In the narrators own words, this segment is cool cool cool, tight tight tight tight.
She adds stuff thats, like, against blood.
Julia Child as a spy.
Aasha Davis, one of our amazing ensemble members, made pins that said it I wear it proud.
Mary Shelley and the Creation of Frankenstein
Season Six, Episode One, Are You Afraid of the Drunk?
I hadnt laughed that hard in a long time.
